Park Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2000. House, former farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Park Farm
- WRENN ID
- long-baluster-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2000
- Type
- House, former farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House, dating back to around 1400, originally an open hall of four bays. It likely had a smoke bay added in the early 16th century, which was later ceiled over, with an external chimney stack constructed around 1650. Further wings were added in the 1960s to the west and a smaller one to the north. The original part is timberframed, with plastered infill on the upper floor of the north front and covering the ground floor of the south and east fronts; the first floors of these fronts are tilehung, with a distinctive pattern of curved tiles incorporated every fifth course. The roof is half-hipped with gablets, and covered in Horsham stone slabs. The house is two storeys high, with three windows. It features 20th-century casement windows. The north side has a large brick chimneystack built in the 17th century in the centre, a smaller one-storey extension to the left, and a porch to the right. The east front features massive curved braces on the ground floor. The south front has 19th-century brick infill laid in a Sussex bond pattern. A 1960s or 1970s brick and tile-hung extension forms an L-shape to the west, with a hipped tiled roof.
The entrance hall contains a stone floor and an 18th-century winder staircase. A timberframed partition separates the hall from the living room. The eastern bay of the living room has square-cut timbers, with a mid-17th-century stop to an axial beam. There is also a spine beam with a 2.5 inch chamfer, and floor joists with lambs tongue stops. A brick fireplace includes a wooden bressumer and a cupboard that appears to have been rebated for spices or salt. The first floor retains massive curved windbraces, and the western end wall has remnants of wattle and daub. Wide oak floorboards are present. A central room has seven panels of 16th or 17th-century pargetting and a fireplace with a cambered wooden bressumer and three alcoves above. A three plank door has pintle hinges. The roof is a queenstrut roof with wide flat collars and heavy side purlins between the collars and rafters. The rafters are reused and show signs of medieval soot encrustation and carpenter's marks, though they are not in sequence. Soot markings on a partition suggest a former enclosed smoke bay. The 1960s wing incorporates 1900 Jacobean-style panelling, believed to have been reused from a Masonic hall.
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